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Renewing the rules for an efficient financial system
Africa’s financial systems have developed and stabilised – a process driven, among other factors, by the emergence of local banks and their capacity for innovation. Although banks are becoming more re...
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Supporting the emergence of a sustainable financial sector in Africa
The last ten years have seen a local banking sector emerge in Africa, alongside the European banks that have traditionally been present. While a development model based on these local resources seems...
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An African banking model
Following the lessons of the pan-African banking groups' expansion, a number of local commercial banks have successfully expanded regionally. They differ from the international banking groups in a num...
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Fostering financial inclusion with mobile banking
Mobile telephony penetration in Africa has increased exponentially over the last decade. contrary, banking penetration remains low on the continent. This contrast paves the mobile banking's success in...
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The renewal of African banking sector
Banking systems in Africa have undergone major changes in recent decades. The emergence of African groups and increased competition have forced the sector to adopt growth strategies based in particula...
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Recycling and innovation in India: PerPETual Global
Each year, around 500 billion plastic bottles are discarded globally. Incinerating them or sending them to landfill increases the levels of pollution generated by the plastics industry. PerPETual Glob...
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Financing waste projects, a challenging opportunity
Governments increasingly seek to rely on the private sector's involvement and financing for improving municipal solid waste management. But, private companies involved in that sector have difficulties...
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Transforming municipal solid waste into a net carbon reducer
While municipal solid waste contributes relatively little to climate change, the waste management sector offers immediate, cost-effective and fast-acting opportunities to achieve substantial cuts in g...
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Integrating the informal sector for improved waste management
In many cities of the developing countries, the informal sector plays an important role in managing municipal solid waste. The informal recovery of recyclables from the solid waste system reduces ove...
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Linking public and private action for sustainable waste management
When it comes to managing waste in developing countries, the private sector can contribute technical skills, organisational capabilities and flexibility. Yet private sector involvement alone will not...
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Cameroon own path towards municipal solid waste management
Cameroon's municipal solid waste management (MSWM) policy is based on a public-private partnership which ensures regular collection and processing service for domestic waste in the major cities. The m...
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Municipal Solid Waste: turning a problem into resource
The management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is not just a public service, it is also an important economic sector. The sector is worth USD 390 billion in both OECD and emerging countries, and provid...
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Stimulating private investment in the forestry sector
Deforestation has devastating effects in developing countries. Managed sustainably, forestry projects provide solutions to economic, environmental and social problems by creating jobs, developing infr...
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Preliminary feedback on FSC certification from an operator's point of view
In 2008, Rougier embarked on the process of securing FSC certification for its Gabon concessions and for its traceability chain (FSC-C017653). The decision was essentially a leap of faith: at that tim...
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Forest management plans in the Congo basin
More than half the forests in the Congo Basin have been allocated as concessions, and most are covered by Forest Management Plans (FMPs). The introduction of these plans – supported by French cooperat...
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Forest management by community forest enterprises
For conservation to be synonymous with development, local populations need to be involved in forest management. Traditional community-based forest management is, however, not without its drawbacks. Th...
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Developping the forestry sector with carbon markets
Forests are vital carbon sinks. Although forestry projects dominate the voluntary carbon markets, they still occupy a marginal position on the larger, compliance markets. This is mainly due to their i...
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Forestry assets in Africa : promising returns
Solid biological growth rates, low establishment and maintenance costs, land availability, and demand for forestry products make Africa an attractive forestry option. Typical emerging market risks as...
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Meeting the challenge of sustainable forest management
Forests serve ecological functions (they regulate the water cycle, sequester carbon and help preserve biodiversity), social functions (providing places to live, a means of subsistence) and economic fu...
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Refining trade regulation to support and stabilise local agricultural production in Africa
Rice and sugar production in West Africa is inadequate. Imports meet a significant proportion of this region's consumption requirements, undermining its food sovereignty. Trade regulation, if it is mo...
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